lime-fingered
adjDefinitions
Given to petty thievery
Given to petty thievery; light-fingered.
- A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!
- Not careless, slothful, false, lime-fingered servants; but the strict master, that observes, and rates, and chastises them: would he hold his hands and tongue, there would be peace.
- Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales.
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